From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:14:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Warn when unable to update a man page.
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_8~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90390c6a92e450ec634ada1c5179478dc86df7b9;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Warn when unable to update a man page.
Suggestion from Bruno Haible.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c4e97835bc..07249f0895 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-02-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Warn when unable to update a man page.
+	Suggestion from Bruno Haible.
+
 2007-02-23  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	Handle better the combination of old Perl and a pre-c99 compiler.
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 017c3e2b74..17b3415ba5 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/install/ginstall/; s/test/[/'`
 # functions like echo, false, printf, pwd.
 .x.1:
 	@case $(PERL) in					\
-	  *"/missing "*) ;;					\
+	  *"/missing "*)					\
+	    echo 'WARNING: cannot update man page $@ since perl is missing' \
+	      'or inadequate' 1>&2 \
+	    ;;							\
 	  *)							\
 	    rm -f $@						\
 	    && { echo "Updating man page $@";			\